Air France flight 007 JFK to Paris cancelled last night.

[aquart]

Renamed 007A due to take off today. No explanations. Not even on Air France website according to:

CBS morning news.

Is this breaking news? This plane was leaving FROM New York.

[soup]

1. link, but no info.

WABC-TV, NY - 8 minutes ago
... Flight number seven is expected to leave later today but Air France says there ... Last
week several Air-France flights from paris to LA were cancelled ...
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=air+france+flight+cancelled&sa=N&tab=wn

A jet full of passengers at bound for Paris was grounded last night due to security concerns. Flight number seven is expected to leave later today but Air France says there could be major delays due to the heightened security alert.
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http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/WABC_122903_airfrance.html

[loudnclear]

2. And how long can this go on before the world economies are affected?

The message being sent is that air flights are really not safe.

[jburton]

3. Ridge drunk again while watching James Bond

Moonraker was on TV last night. You know, the James Bond (007) where the plane and space shuttle flight from the US to Europe is hijacked, paving the way for the villain to create a new human race.

[7th_Sephiroth]

4. ever notice that all these stopped planes

are going to paris, is bush trying to put a dent in france/eu's economy?

[demdave]

5. Only this one was going to Paris, the others were coming from Paris.

[ScrewyRabbit]

6. Either way, the point is to punish those countries

...who won't fall in line.

Which airline was the shoe bomber flying on, anyway?

[demdave]

7. It was an American Airline flight from Paris to Miami.

[ScrewyRabbit]

8. You'd think Al Qaeda would get clever and start

...flying people out of countries other than France.s

Unless, of course, this has nothing to do with Al Qaeda.

[Cooley Hurd]

11. See Post #10

I think you're right, you ScrewyRabbit! ;)

[shawn703]

9. They're trying to look like their on top of this Terra alert

That way if something does happen, they can say, well we tried the best we could! You can't have all these Orange alerts and look like you're not doing anything about it. The bad thing for them is that there are no arrests yet either. I'm surprised the order hasn't come down to detain some random Frenchman indefinitely on suspicion of links to al Qaeda.

[Cooley Hurd]

10. Wouldn't you think that if terra'sts were indeed going to use...

...Air France airliners to attack the US, they would know the jig was up and try to use another airline by now?

The fact that it's been Air France flights disrupted each time tells me that, if the threats are being manufactured by DHS, this is clearly YET ANOTHER ATTEMPT to demonize the French for their opposition to the war.

We know the maturity level of the repugs regarding the French knows no bounds (see: Freedom Fries).

[crimson333]

12. The flight from Dublin

to los angelos was cancelled the same day as the 3?flights from france.

why I don't know

[demdave]

13. Many criminal's defense consists of.."I wouldn't be stupid enough......."

and yet they are. Never underestimate the stupidity of the criminal element. They do not have to pass an IQ test. Frankly, most zealots I have seen or heard are quite naive and uneducated. I believe the "shoe bomber" couldn't get a fuse lit without drawing attention to himself yet the plane had a private bathroom.

France has a large population of Muslim people, making it easier to blend in and less conspicuous to do business.